Here are some unused outtakes from my recent video. This is me jamming to see what comes out, while in the process of writing the demo piece at the end of the video. At one point, I did use a section of this jam as the intro of the demo, but unfortunately my AT4040 mic into the interface malfunctioned and rendered most of that stuff unusable in the end. This is just what was picked up by the onboard camera mic. Some of it was actually pretty decent. I felt inspired anyway. When I feel like I'm jelling with an instrument or amp or whatever, I like to just let the camera and mics roll and see if anything is worth keeping. Sometimes magic happens, sometimes nothing seems to be worth a single solitary shit. Most of the time, it's a mixed bag. It's funny listening back to stuff like this as the guy who did it, I can always predict where I'm probably about to go with it, even if I don't remember specifically anything I played. Funny how the mind works like that. As for the onboard camera mics... Sometimes I prefer this raw onboard camera mic sound anyway because it's bare and honest. Gives a pretty good representation of what the acoustic sounds like in the room. I even will use a hint of the onboard camera mic in the actual final mix to give it that pinch of honesty you can't seem to get with a high quality condenser or close mic. You can hear in the final demo, I actually dial in the onboard camera microphone a bit when the slide part kicks in.
This is a clip that I normally just discard at the end of a project. It's an extended and unedited jam session from which I took all the guitar clips for the recent D'Angelico Double Cut demo. Originally recorded in 4k, the full clip is 16gb large, which explains why I don't usually save these clips once a project is complete. Saving all the clips from these video would mean I'd eat up hard drive space in no time, so I always just delete them. This time, for giggles, I figured I'd reduce this down from 4k to 1080 and upload it here to preserve it. It's just raw camera mic footage, but it's fun to see how much stuff gets discarded when I edit this stuff down. It might also be fun for some of you to see how I usually go about recording demos. As you can see, I just start jamming and see what comes out. Some of it gets used and most of it hits the cutting room floor. This was the first time in about 6 weeks that I had picked up a guitar after my back injury, so it felt really good to ...
You're getting this in advance of the video, which should be published some time in the next couple days. I might have gone a bit overboard with the demo this time. What do you think?
A few years back I saw a 412 cabinet at my local Music Go Round. It was built by a company I didn't recognize, but I did a little research and found out the cabinet was from the early 70s and, if the speakers were original, would contain 4x Celestion Green Backs. I borrowed a screw driver from the guy at the counter and opened the cab. Sure enough, there were 4x early 70s Celestion Green Backs. I traded them to a guy in Asia for a half ounce Canadian Gold Maple Leaf. I paid $100 for the cabinet. Today, gold hit a near all time high close to $3000/ounce. I sold that half ounce bullion round for $1500. THAT is how you score at the music store, my friends.
